The formal acceptance by a hospital or other inpatient health are facility of a patient who is to be provided with room, board, and continuous nursing service in an area of the hospital or facility where patients generally stay at least overnight.
The act of being registered as a hospital patient.
In education, the formal acceptance of a student to enroll in a course of study at a school, after meeting the various requirements for entry, such as achieving an acceptable score on an admission test. At whatever level, from kindergarten to graduate school, some basic information about the student must be provided for admission, including identification and age (as attested by a birth or baptismal certificate). At every level beyond kindergarten, students must also provide transcripts of previous schoolwork. For private schools and for private and public colleges, students also generally need to have recommendations, as from former teachers or local community leaders. In public schools, admission tests are normally used for screening and diagnostic purposes, intended to help educators to assess where in the school the student might fit best and to see if the student has any special learning problems that need to be addressed. However, most private schools and colleges of any type base their admission decision at least partly on the student’s scores on required entrance tests. Many also have students fill out applications, ranging from brief to lengthy, providing much personal information, which is also used in the admissions decision.
Formal acceptance of a patient by a hospital or other health care institution in order to provide care.
A statement made by a party to a lawsuit, which affirms or denies a material fact concerning the lawsuit. A “material fact” is one which is essential to the plaintiffs or defendant’s case. Admissions are used to streamline the legal process, so that time is not wasted in court proving facts about which the parties do not disagree, such as the parties’ names and addresses, whether the plaintiff was in fact a patient at the hospital, and so forth. If a party denies such a fact in bad faith, and the other party has to prove it at trial, the party acting in bad faith is penalized.